This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn is now being turned into condominiums.

NYC's legendary underground network for bovine transportation.

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

Steam out your ears for New Year's Eve.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

In DeWitt, New York, a blanket-wrapped gas station makes a creative statement on global dependence on oil.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

Mid-Century Modern Meets Millionaire’s Row.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

The short oil boom of Venice Beach, and its swift removal from the tourism-laden landscape.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.